2.One should always be in a state of cleanliness. One may sleep when
necessary but, on rising, one should immediately perform one’s ablutions.
3.One should keep an unbroken fast.
4.Either one should perform
dhikr
(remembrance of God) or remain
silent.
5.While reciting
dhikr
, one should recollect in one’s heart the presence
of one’s
pir
(spiritual mentor).
6.Every thought except that of God should be expelled.
13
After moving his capital from Delhi to Daulatabad, Muhammad bin
Tughlaq transferred the
ulama
and the Sufis, including Maulana Husamuddin,
to the new location. Thereafter the Maulana left for Gujarat,
where he
lived till his death.
Maulana Fakhruddin Zarradi was an
alim
who was initially totally against
Sufism. Nasiruddin, who came to be known later as Chiragh-i-Dilli (The
Lamp of Delhi), was his classmate and it was he who persuaded him to visit
the Shaykh.When he met Shaykh Nizamuddin, he was so impressed by his
personality and his intellectual brilliance that he shaved his head, adopted
celibacy and became his follower. He rented a house near the
jamaat khana
,
so that he could remain close to his Shaykh. Most of his time was spent in
prayer and it was not long before his fame spread far and wide.
MaulanaAlauddin Nili, another
khalifah
, was widely known for his piety.
He could not cope with the responsibilities of the world and spent most of
his life shunning them. He busied himself reading the
malfuzaat
of his Shaykh,
13
As recorded in the Malfuzaat of Sheikh Nasiruddin Chiragh, Kahirul Majaalis, pp. 68-69, ed.
A.K.Nizami, Aligarh, 1959
